Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-11
The New Newspaper Venture.

daily and weekly newspaper VIII be
established ut Seattle on the 1t I'll
january, to he named the Washing
toHi,m Mco,poruior. with Salvador
Elicott, W. X. Andrews. Marion d.
Egbcrt, J. 4. Kuhn and j. f.. Willis.
a> incorporators, and a capital stock OF
$4,000. The new venture i, to in
Glade job printing. and the - plant"
is to be supplied with first-class out
fit ior book and job printing.
This is the substance Of mcmoran-
dunn left ut our office 10y Mr. Willis,
and is doubtless the outyrowth of the
efforts lately made by Mr., Ellicott, for
the establishment OF Il tirst-class Dem
ocratic paper, ut some point on Puget
Sound, 10 be designated by the stock
holders. Mr.. +. visited Olympia about
Il month ago, to place the scheme he
fore his party associates Of this
county, and at a meeting OF prominent
Democratic citizens stated that the
object was to furnish the people with
simon-pure party journal, that should
be tirst-class in ali respects, under the
control Of $500 editor from the
East, and to be entirely free from con-
troll of, or dictation from, the class
that was vaguly denominatcd "politi-
clans" Upon inquiry, Mr.. Ellicott
defined the word to mean and include
those offensive partisans whose itch
for Office always brought them to the
front when such enterprises were for
mulated. The capital necessary to
conduct the enterprise was to be OBJ
tanned, in the main, from party men
in each county who believed that
"political necessity" required the
establishment of such a journal at
some point in the Territory. A sub
sequent meeting was held in this
place on the 2Sth ult., and another al
Seattle on the evening of the 5tl
inst, at which, it seems, arrangements
were made whereby the project has
assumed definite shape and the place
was selected where it should moteridliee
as the spiritualists say.
At the first meeting, in this city
the writer was present, by invitation
of the protector, and ut the earnest
solicitation of Mr. Ellicott gave his
views of the expediency as well as tho
feasibility of the enterprise. No true
Democrat will question the necessity
for a well-conducted daily newspaper
at some central point, that shall faith
fully disseminate the principles of the
party, while much honest difference
i'll opinion may exist as to the bes
means of attaining that object. TIL,
amount of capital stock, granting thai
$4,000 may be obtained in the wa,
proposed, is far too small for the com
pany to assume the task of publishing
a frst-class morning newspaper, Will
all the expenses and risks that such :
venture involves. The Associated
Press dispatches are necessity for
journal which assumes to be q first
class newspaper, and this service in
wolves an outlay that will make big
hole in the proposed amount of CAPT
tai to be invested. Correspondent.
must be employed at all leading
points, and this too calls for large
expenditure OF coin. Then a sinking
fund must be provided, to meet the
losses that will inevitably result fol
the first year or two, in competition
with journals already established
This drain requires long purse ant
firm determination, as Ben Hollada,
found few years ago, when he spen
a cool quarter-million in the endeavo
to establish the Portland Bulletin as :
competitor of the Oregonian, will
about the same field that Seattle nov
presents as central point for new,
dissemination. AS the writer was no
called in at subsequent meetings, it il
presumable that his want of taih ha.
been construed into hostility to thu
object contemplated, which is far from
the truth. The STANDARD would cor
daily welcome a co-laborer in tn,
cause it has so long advocated ant
upheld.
| In looking over the list of incorpo
rators, it will be observed that Mr.
EllicOtt has accepted the broade
meaning of the term politician,
and has not excluded men OF sterlin,
worth and enterprise on the plea tina
may have at some period in thei
lives been offensive partisans.